Hmm.
The Big Picture in Cases is rosy, just like the color of the Quasi's graph. Yeah, we see that little tail at extreme right, but come on, it's still dang good.
In the very near term, the trough is July 5, the picture literally and figuratively is distorted, but clearly there has been a sharp increase July 6 through 8 relative to the immediate past.
That's too steep a rise over three iterations to be statistical noise. Clearly, summer gatherings and the Delta variant have fueled it.
There's a two week lag between cases and deaths, some lesser period of time between cases and hospitalizations. Right about now you'd expect to see a slight uptick in those other categories, and indeed you do. Seven-day average deaths June 25-July 8 are 194, up twelve over the June 24-July 7 average. The hospitalizations trough was 16,618/day June 29. The most recent data from the Times is 17,150 July 6. The 7-day average has risen each iteration from June 29 through July 6. Again: In the history of the coronavirus in the United States, these are minuscule numbers, the daily increases mockably small (12? 12?!) but the most recent trend, and that is what it is, trend not artifact, is clearly up, bad.
